Blockvorlesung Urban Infrastructures

This is the idea and concept basis for the seminar. The implementation may differ slightly. The seminar will cover key issues of infrastructure planning, management and maintenance in the urban context and strategically link infrastructural issues with sustainability goals. The seminar will both contextualize issues with a comprehensive and strategic meaning and those in specific infrastructural settings, such as for energy provision, water supply, waste (water) management or transport and logistics infrastructure. The two main strategic and cross-oriented baselines will be set from a critical perspective on smart city development and design as well as from a strong sustainability standpoint with reference to the ecosystem approach for infrastructure planning. Single contributions of the involved lecturers include as a core curriculum: • Sustainability demands on urban infrastructure - The ecosystem approach for infrastructural planning (Klaus Krumme) • Integrated urban infrastructure – real smart design for the physical city (J. Alexander Schmidt) • Smart Electricity Grids as key for sustainable urban energy systems and supply system transformation (Istvan Ehrlich) • The city from the underground view – how to manage and match supply needs (Andre Niemann) • Urban Water Supply Infrastructure and Waste Water Treatment Technology – international challenges (Martin Denecke) • Urban Transport Infrastructure planning and climate friendly urban mobility systems/ Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) (Stefan Wolter) • New and current discussions about Maintenance/Life Cycle Costs etc.? (Christin Schneider/ Alexander Malkwitz) Bemerkung This course will be offered mainly for students from the Master's Programme -Sustainabel Urban Technologies- (Advanced Module). The written examination takes place in room: S04 T01 A02 Profilschwerpunkt Urbane Systeme Universität Duisburg-Essen WiSe 2014/15 Professor Schmidt J Alexander M.Arch